how much I love you. But if we want in on this mission to find our sister, you need to chill out.” Genie hummed a couple of bars to release Deelah’s vocal chords before speaking to the royal sisters who were looking at the two of them like, what the fuck? “We want to come with you. I may be no good to you in a physical fight, but Deelah is, and I do have my assets.”

“No,” Tialanna said with finality.

“Hold on, wait. What do you mean no?” Genie shook her head, “We have just as much right to be there as any of you. With all due respect, all you did was give birth to her. We’ve been with her and loved her all her life. That makes us family, blood or not.”

“Not so calm and collected now, are you, Genie?” Deelah mumbled under her breath as she watched Genie’s hair begin to lift with the magick building up inside her. Then more loudly and with a slight snarl she said, “Mind telling us why the fuck you think we won’t be joining in on this hunting party of yours? We only asked out of courtesy and respect, and that was her idea”—she pointed a clawed thumb towards Genie—“not mine.”

Tia had been looking down, tightening the straps on her thigh holsters, but looked up at that. “I don’t think a Goddess damned thing. The two of you are no more than a liability.”

“Liability? Oh, we’ll show you a fucking liability.” With that, Deelah held out her arms, splaying open her hands as power visibly began gathering within them. Genie’s hair was not only floating from the waves of magick wafting off her; her eyes had become a swirling vortex. Genie and Deelah walked farther into the room, clearly ready to show them they were far from a liability. Genie opened her mouth, and Deelah raised her arms, both getting ready to put on some damn show they didn’t have time for right then.

Tialanna, Anya, and Elyssia spoke in unison in a haunting tone drenched with so much power everyone within the realm felt it. “Enough.”

With that one word, they brought those two girls down to their knees with a crushing pain, snuffing out their power with the same amount of effort it took to put out a candle. Deelah clutched at her hands as the power had been burned away from them, her wolf no longer at the forefront. Genie’s hands flew to her throat when she realized she was unable to make a single sound, her eyes no longer swirling but wide with the constricting pain that held her vocal cords hostage.

The three now stood side by side in a united front. It was Tia who spoke to Deelah and Genie as they forced the girls to look at them without so much as being able to blink. “You dare try to attack us to attempt to prove a point? The only thing you’ve done is reassure me how not ready you are for this. Did you truly think your magick would harm us? What? Did you think we ruled by sheer force of will?”

Anya cocked her head to the side, continuing where Tia left off. “You may have some power rolling off and inside you, but you have no clue when to use it, or apparently who you should use it on. We are not your enemy. And we cannot use magick on the enemy we’re going up against, unless we want to make her stronger. Only brains and brawn are going to get Jelissa back home, and the two of you seem to be lacking in both. You wouldn’t even be able to take out one of our weakest guards without having your asses handed right back to you.”

“I know damn well the two of you were taught better than this.” Elyssia said in exasperation, “Were you actually going to try to attack us? You must be out of your rabid minds to pull a stunt like that.”

The sisters released Deelah and Genie from their grasp. The two placed their hands palms-down on the floor, their breaths coming in short pants as they tried to regain some form of composure. The sisters’ eyes reverted to their normal colors, their power dissipating back to a normal level.

Deelah continued to look down at the floor and tears pooled in her eyes. “The truth of it is, Jelissa isn’t only the glue that holds the three of us together, but the rock that holds us all in check. We need to be there. We need to find her.”

“I realize how much my daughter means to you, I really do. But what the two of you aren’t understanding is you will only be in the way if you do come. You’re right; you are her family, but we’re not letting the other families come either. Only ones coming are those who will definitely be of some help. Everyone else is staying the fuck here. No exceptions.”

“Tia, maybe we could let them come.” At Tia’s immediate protest, and the look of hope that gleamed in the girls’ eyes, Elyssia added, “But only by doing something in the background and staying away from the actual fight.”

For a moment, they all looked at her with expressions that spoke volumes and jaws dropping towards the floor. Anya was the first to recover. With one eyebrow raised almost all the way up to her hairline, she rolled her eyes and planted her hands on her hips before asking, “Have you lost your ever-loving mind? What are we going to have them do? Stand outside the building and be cheerleaders?”

“No, you jerk! Sometimes the two of you are so much worst when there was only one.” Elyssia proclaimed. “If we’re going to include the tech geeks in on this, we really do need someone we can trust to make sure they don’t flip sides on us. They can’t use their magick where we’re going, but it

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